By KELIN DILLON During his daily press conference on the morning of Thursday, July 29, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would be releasing a significant portion of Mexico’s prisoner population out of cells and back into society based on specific guidelines. Via a presidential decree, prisoners over the age of 65 with health issues and those
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Prison for Organized Crime
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite condemnation from Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), as well as the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Mexican Congress approved a bill on Tuesday, Feb. 19, that adds nine new charges to the list of crimes for which suspects must be held without the possibility of bail, including electoral fraud and fuel
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Monday, Feb. 18, that the group of islands off the country’s Pacific coast known as the Islas Marías, which, in the 1940s were transformed from a high-security federal penitentiary into a low-security prison for nonviolent offenders with a minimum two-year sentence, will soon become a cultural center and nature reserve
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After more than two years of incarceration, former Sonora Governor Guillermo Padrés Elias was released from the Reclusorio Oriente prison on the night of Saturday, Feb. 2, by order of the Federal Attorney General (PGR). Padrés Elias turned himself into Mexican authorities in November 2016, after being accused of money laundering, tax fraud and
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